NEW DELHI: Disagreement has surfaced within the opposition bloc—Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance)-- in Bihar over the seat-sharing formula for the upcoming Assembly elections. The Communist Party of India (CPI) (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation has rejected the number of seats offered to it by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), the largest constituent of the coalition.

The Left party was reportedly offered 19 seats; the same number it contested in the 2020 Assembly elections, when it won 12 as part of the alliance. However, the CPI-ML (Liberation) has objected to both the number of seats and the proposed swapping of several constituencies it had contested last time.

Sources in CPI-ML (Liberation) said that the party had already conveyed its displeasure, submitted a list of 30 preferred constitue

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